Brown, who is about 6-feet, said police threw him to the ground and handcuffed him without a problem after he tried to stop them from putting police tape over the apartment's peephole, saying his wife would be less upset if she could see what was going on outside the door. His wife, is only 5-feet 2-inches.

"What they did to me they could have done to her. But when it came to her, 'pop, pop, pop,'" he said, making a gesture of a gun with his hands.

Photo courtesy of Wesley BrownMartina Brown, in a photo taken four years ago, with her granddaughter, Amber.

Wesley Brown said his wife was schizophrenic and stopped taking her medicine several days ago. She got crazier and crazier, he said. Last night she was blasting music and when he tried to get her to turn it down she grabbed a knife, he said.

He called 911 to get an ambulance, he said. But hearing that Martina had a knife, 911 sent police as well, Wesley said.

Martina locked herself in the apartment and cops kicked in the door, Wesley said.

Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said that police tried to subdue Martina using batons, but she "held tight to the knife." She slashed on officer in the arm. Then she lunged over one cop and "stabbed" another in the forehead. It was then that police shot her.

DeFazio said his "preliminary" assessment is that the police didn't do anything wrong.

"It would appear that it was self defense and the defense of others on the part of the police offices," he said.

"They did try to reason with her. They tried to disarm her," he said. "They didn't fire first, they were assaulted first."

He added that "people who are mentally ill can present as extremely dangerous."

"It's a tragic situation," he added.

Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey JournalWesley Brown, 51, reflected in the mirror, looks at the blood and bullet holes in the bathroom of his Van Wagenen Avenue apartment where his mentally-ill wife, Martina Brown, 58, was fatally shot by Jersey City police officers.